- Have your character react to a phone call. He has to react to the ringer , and has a emotion change while on the phone. Emotion change examples: happy to angry , disinterested to interested , etc) The animation has to have a conclusion , meaning do not finish the anim when he is talking on the phone. no unfinished animations please.

- Since we are not using sound , do NOT worry about lip synch. your character doesnt even have to talk if you choose to do so. the focus is body acting more than lip synch.

-Location can be anywhere. (park , house , bedroom , space station , etc) - Animations can be between 10 - 30 seconds.

- Modelling should be kept to a bare minimum , [color=red]no need for detailed environments and texture maps. [/color]

- You can use pre-rigged characters

- [color=red]No camera cuts. The camera has to be static. [/color]

-[color=red] No need for lighting/rendering. Playblasts are acceptable , the focus of this session is animation so do NOT hide the character by making a dark scene.[/color]

- [color=red]NO Sound[/color]

- This session starts July 20th and goes until August 10th.

- Please post all your WIP’s in this thread for critique.

- Animation done prior to this session is [color=red]NOT acceptable. please create new animation for this session. [/color]

WIP and Final animations should be 320 x 240 or 640 x 480 , using quicktime with sorenson 3 codec. Try not to use DIV-x since there is no way to scrub the animation and it makes giving critiques that much harder.

You can post any questions you have about the session in this thread .

wicked this is just the kind of thing i was hoping for, count me in.
right now im thinking of the situation you find yourself in when your mobile rings in your jeans pocket and your driving at a busy time.